Michael Jackson’s family sue concert promoter over death

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Michael Jackson at the O2 centre in London shortly before his deathTimes Photographer David Bebber

Rhys Blakely Los Angeles

Last updated at 12:01AM, April 3 2013

Four years after his death, the King of Pop is on trial yet again. Michael
Jackson’s children, Prince, 16, Paris, 14, Blanket, 10, and his mother
Katherine, 82, are expected to demand record damages of $40 billion (£26.5
billion) from AEG Live in a civil trial that began in Los Angeles yesterday.

The company was behind the comeback concerts the singer was preparing to
perform in London when he died in Los Angeles in 2009. The Jackson family
allege that AEG failed properly to check and supervise Dr Conrad Murray, the
personal physician who fatally dosed Jackson with a surgical